As drawn, the mask would have little to no effect on her peripheral vision, and the one who did for her started out behind Glon’s left shoulder, so she should have been able to track him all the way in.

The one in panel 3 and 5 is not the Captain, who is the one who did the Gorgon in. If you look at the previous strip, you’ll see that his whole troop is out in the fog and they all kinda look the same. Sorry for the confusion.

So quick to assume the worst stereotypes about the undead? Don’t be a zombie-ist!

We still don’t know the details about the type of magic performed to Raise the Dead here. Their current form may not involve necrotic flesh. If, for instance, they were Resurrected, they could technically be alive again.

Ranna may be too busy creating a punishment for her to actually listen to any report. And, the report may not be complete enough to provide critical info.

Hmmm. On the other hand. It seems that nearly every, or every, Rannite in the city is about to end up in the afterlife. So, maybe you are correct. Even Ranna would probably notice a few dozen or a hundred or so of her followers suddenly showing up from the same city, and between all of them should probably would recover actionable intelligence. Again, assuming Ranna isn’t too busy punishing all of them for failure or otherwise busy.

So no, they’re immune to a lot of effects, but not to petrification. Which makes a certain sense – poison and disease may have no effect on their non-existent vitality, but turning the remains of their flesh to stone should still work.

It would also depend if they had eyes or not – non corporeal undead would be immune while physical would be depending on the state of preservation. this however are resurrected so not technically undead – just a bit malnourished and pinched there is also the fog vision limitation

"Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless)."

Nine times out of ten, a petrification effect requires a fortitude save. Unless these are the gorgons of legend that can turn any non-stone object into stone, the undead are wholly immune to petrification.

That said, this is Rich’s story. He has stated in the past that many of D&D’s rules are overlooked in favor of story… so we’ll have to wait and see.

Since we’re bursting bubbles… if I was going to use D&D game rules for determining the outcome of my stories -and I’m not- but I’d be using the stuff I’m familiar with, which includes Basic/1st/2nd AD&D and none of these talk about ‘fortitude saves’. They’d be using Magic Resistance % or Saves vs Petrification. Which I’m not going to look up tonight. 🙂

Oh, I’ve certainly no qualms about referring to to older editions 🙂 Technically, I started at 2nd edition, which was ended six months later to "test out" (and continue within) 3rd edition. I remember those saves… and THAC0… and… yeah.

Seeing as the brain doesn’t technically die until its been without oxygen for three to four minutes, this is actually possible. Supposedly during the French Revolution it even happened that the heads were clearly still alive for a short time (rarely).

Usually the sheer damage causes the brain to panic and go into shock in a (futile) attempt to conserve resources and survive a little longer. So it shuts down and may as well be dead.

I am Thorin! Son of Thrain! Son of Thror! King under the mount-! Oh, wrong literature? Sorry.

A couple days ago you said you’d find a map, whenever you do, where could I find it? Do you have a blog or would you post it on a forum, or straight up as a comic? No need to rush, I think I’m a patient person.

But it could be an interesting way to save a friend from death. Say they ingested a deadly poison and you didn’t have the cure. Turn them to stone, find the cure, come back, stone to flesh, administer antidote, all lovely jubbly!

Of course I’m eager as hell to see the next strip, but if I had to come back and see the same one every day this week, what a great one to see again.

– The gray fog and mist effect is so effectively creepy.
– The shot of first one opposing side then the other in the first two panels is great.
– Then the Glon shot right after. Just him in the foreground, and the implied army in the background (represented by the indistinct solitary soldier). Great framing. And character-wise, as someone mentioned, fantastic. He still has doubts about his new role, but you push him, lady, and you will never even get a hint of them. All his focus will be on ending you. And rest assured, that will happen.
– Panels six and seven. Classic staging. The Shape appears – the fear moment. The Shape moves – then nothing. Chills.

That is exactly correct. Those last three panels are my tribute to John Carpenter’s marvellous Fog finale.

However, the clip you linked to is terrible! Why are all the colours washed out? What’s with the crappy last frame flip and cartoon blood effects? Having trouble finding a proper clip in YouTube, but for anyone for whom this might be their first view of the 1980 film "The Fog" by John Carpenter, trust me, it’s waaaay better than this clip suggests!